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Rocket Kids: Burning Out Their Fuses Up There Alone

The Desire

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Textual image is from the book Letters to John Glenn. It is an edited letter from a schoolgirl to John Glenn after his orbit around the Earth in 1962. This text can be found on page 25 of Letters to John Glenn. Rights holder for this text is World Book Encyclopedia Science Service and is being used on this site through Fair Use.

A girl shows her the desire to join the ranks of the Rocket Kids in a letter to John Glenn. She thinks it would be interesting to go to outer space.